Robert F. Kennedy Jr: Fox News Has Divided America In a Way Not Seen Since the Civil War By Noel Sheppard Created 12/08/2012 - 11:13am

Robert F. Kennedy Jr said of Fox News Friday, "It's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War."

This occurred during an online video interview with the Huffington Post (video follows with transcript and commentary):

ROBERT F. KENNEDY JR: Theres two things happening. One is the influence of big money in politics, and the other is the right-wing control of the American media, particularly starting with Fox News. 95 percent of talk radio in our country is right-wing, and you need, according to Pew survey, and you, so a whole section of our country that thats what theyre hearing. They wake up in the morning, when they go to bed at night.

Twenty-two percent of Americans say their primary news source is Fox News. I think that that has, that has, it's divided our country in a way that we haven't been divided probably since the Civil War, and that its empowered these large corporations to get certain kinds of politicians and ideologues who are in the United States Congress elected - the Tea Party ideologues who control the Republican Party.

This is pretty hysterical considering President Obama met with representatives from MSNBC Tuesday to discuss tax policy.

It seems a metaphysical certitude Kennedy doesn't see anything wrong with that.

OH GOODNESS.....a Kennedy is trying to become relavent...they’ve been quiet too long....And what kind of a business has this kennedy begun, operated and retired from, or is he living off the remains of his grandfathers offshore investments and the government? Funny how these holier than thou are so free with comments.

I still hate you, your entire family, the rabid liberals you consort with, and all the people that support the likes of you. Fox really doesn’t have anything to do with it asshole. I’d deck you where you stand if I ever met you face to face.

It’s funny how the demon’s of the left howl that we have right wing propaganda now when for so many years they have been brainwashing the people in the guise of news on all of the news stations nationwide. Very sophisticated stuff they have been doing. So it is just too bad poor babies, isn’t it!

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posted on 12/08/2012 8:46:03 AM PST
by fabian
(" And a new day will dawn for those who stand long, and the forests will echo in laughter")

His argument about Fox makes even less sense than his idiotic public “defense” of his murdering cousin, Skakel (finally in prison for having beaten Martha Moxley to death with a golf club), on grounds that make the argument that Elvis is not dead seem realistic by comparison.

“Is he one of the few who hasn’t skied into a tree or crashed a plane....”
Yep he’s missed all that and is drawn to politics and influnence peddling just like all Kennedys.
Just another tapeworm in the body politic.

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posted on 12/08/2012 8:47:08 AM PST
by Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)

I think Fox News helped give us a Republican presidential nominee so liberal that many conservatives voted third party or just stayed home on election day. In that backhanded way, Fox News helped reelect Obama.

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posted on 12/08/2012 8:50:14 AM PST
by Tau Food
(Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)

Sounds like he's back on the smack...*again*.One of the thinks about this punk that truly amazes me is that he had the...cajones...to appear in a Connecticut courtroom as a character witness for his murderer cousin,Michael Skakill.Although there *is* a certain sick symmetry there...a heroin addict defending a murderer.

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posted on 12/08/2012 8:52:22 AM PST
by Gay State Conservative
(Benghazi: What Did Baraq Know And When Did He Know It?)

Yes, my opinion does matter a whit of beans to this asswipe’s purpose in spewing his trash.

It will only matter when how he feels, how he is stuggling, how his constituents are struggling, doesn’t matter any more. Everyone will be for themselves by then, and he’ll be a distant memory with all the other losers.

They have CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Headline News et. all plus they pack presidential election debates with their moderators, own the educational system, Hollywood, and use all to get Obama reelected but they still complain?

It has become clear to me that total domination is the socialist party’s goal. No differing opinion, no independent thinking unless it’s in lock step with the party talking points.

Where is the demand that ALL FOUNDATIONS be taxed at the same rate as individuals and businesses? It’s time the putrid Kennedys stop milking the system, while screaming about The Rich not paying enough. They’ve lived off the tax-free ill-gotten gains of their criminal grandfather and great-grandfather, old Joe Kennedy, who ran illegal booze during prohibition. Only the corrupt Leftist media could turn this bunch of drug users and assorted low-lifes into American Royalty!

The Ford Foundation, Johnson Foundation, The Tides Foundation....all Left wing tax shelters that propagate Communism throughout the world. Tax them till they bleed.

There have been a number of times when the split has been really vicious. All of my older relatives died convinced that FDR was a communist, a tool of Stalin. They were small businessmen and they lost fortunes during FDR’s Depression.

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